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Its story

76 Geminorum is an orange giant about 635 light-years away, set in the field of the twins Castor and Pollux. It belongs to that cohort of suns that have crossed onto the giant branch and now wear a cool, swollen, intensely luminous atmosphere, far brighter than our own. The light defining it tonight peeled off its surface around the time Europe was first reading Cervantes.